Re: segfault with just running "rpm -qa"

[Gareth Bromley <gbromley intstar com>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Oded Arbel wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 September 2003 13:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   just now, i noticed that running a simple "rpm -qa" printed
> > all of five packages, then segfaulted.  i did the customary
> > "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*", but the problem persists.
> >
> >   thoughts?  this is new, and a little disturbing.
> Did you do rpm --rebuilddb ?
I had something similar a few months ago which I tracked down to missing
libraries (due to someone 'hardening' the unit).

In the end I had to rebuild the unit, as even do rpm --rebuildb even from
rescue CDs didn't help.

Hopefully your problem isnt so serious

Gareth